Suspended: Brian O'Driscoll
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Brian O'Driscoll has been handed a three-week ban for stamping on Italy's Simone Favaro and is out of Leinster's Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final.
O'Driscoll was sent to the sin-bin for only the second time in his 14-year professional career in the first half of the defeat to Italy at the Stadio Olimpico after bringing his leg down on Favaro's chest, causing the openside to yell out in pain.
Despite missing his province's clash with Wasps on April 5, he will return to Leinster duty in time for their RaboDirect PRO12 season run-in.
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makemehappy says...
Nobody could think that this was as bad as the Healy incident which was much more likely to cause injury! Bonkers!
Posted 12:52 21st March 2013
kiwipaddy says...
Did BOD apologise to Favaro?
Posted 09:33 21st March 2013
kiwipaddy says...
Did BOD apologise to Favaro?
Posted 09:33 21st March 2013
kiwipaddy says...
Did BOD apologise to Favaro?
Posted 09:31 21st March 2013
Toulousain says...
hmmm...... still waiting for 3in4 to change his name to, say, 3in5, or better still, KOedb4QFs?
Posted 09:12 21st March 2013
jamesliveinhope says...
@3in4
heard Cian Healy on his return from his ban suggesting that "if it were me I'd have expected the same"
Considers himself rehabilitated then
Posted 08:47 21st March 2013
paulynz says...
Hope he apologised to Favaro. Lol
Posted 07:58 21st March 2013
Trader2 says...
I wrote after the Ireland v England game that there was more stamping in that game than you would see in a Fred Astair movie (remember him). This seems to be systemic in the NH game so not surprising that someone go done for it. Shame it had to be BOD in perhaps his last game for Ireland. Ironic though isn't it, given the hyperbol of the British press in November last year, aka Adam Thompson.
Posted 00:28 21st March 2013
backnforward says...
3in4
You really are what rugby union does not need - a mindless thug trying to justify what is a serious (and dangerous) infringement in the code of rugby union...
Posted 21:45 20th March 2013
Jhamer25 says...
Don't worry all he had to do is appeal and the stupid commity will probably let him off.
Posted 21:00 20th March 2013
kennyisgay says...
3in4, yes everybody will think twice and do the same knowing the ill tempered lasses from the emerald will react as always and end up costing their team. Not the sharpest tools in the shed them lasses
Posted 20:59 20th March 2013
dw2004 says...
@ 3in4
You are a tw*t with your comment that it was understandable. There is no place for that sort of thing on the field.
As for choke tackles, go back and watch all the matches in the 6N and then tell me how many you could see and how often a player was stamped on.
Ireland are probably one of the worst for choke tackles. How many Irish players were stamped on.
And for the record, O'Driscoll got off very very lightly with three weeks.
Posted 20:40 20th March 2013
les_bleus says...
Had it been a French player it would have been 6 weeks :-)
Posted 20:31 20th March 2013
TVaddict says...
More than Heaslip? That is a joke.
Posted 20:19 20th March 2013
mcdb06 says...
@3in4
He didnt have him in a chokehold at all. Watch the video again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDq8gaVTOo Fair suspension
Posted 20:15 20th March 2013
L4L4 says...
And what about Freddie Michalak's Punching antics? What ban will he be getting?
Posted 19:36 20th March 2013
carpelone says...
3in4
What an idiot you are.
Not only he stamped Favaro, but he put his hands on his face to hurt him more. Luckily, he didn't push.
Hope his ban won't be condoned.
He should have know better.
Posted 19:21 20th March 2013
lawynd says...
@3in4 - I bet you'd be screaming bloody murder if your beloved BOD had had his leg or ribs broken by Cole or Favaro...grow up.
Posted 18:20 20th March 2013
ciaran1792 says...
Rightly so even though i am a fan that really deserved punishment.
Posted 18:07 20th March 2013
3in4 says...
Favaro had Madigan in a chokehold with his right hand and O'Driscoll was just helping his team-mate. Understandable response if you ask me. Just like Dan Cole, maybe Favaro will think again next time.
Posted 17:24 20th March 2013